KIEV, Dec. 8 - The new text of a Ukrainian law on civil service may foresee the separation of political and administrative posts in government agencies and the introduction of the posts of state secretaries, said Tymofiy Motrenko, head of the Main Department of Ukraine’s Civil Service.

"The new law [on the civil service] has been drafted and is at the Cabinet of Ministers. The main innovation in it is a section on political and administrative posts, the introduction of the posts of state secretaries and the transfer of the responsibility of civil servants for the execution of their duties from the provisions of the Labor Code to this law," he said at a briefing in Kiev on Tuesday.